Open Qualitative Research (Taguette)

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About this Lesson

Familiarizes learners with the application of open science principles to qualitative research. Focuses on documents or transcribed text in a variety of data formats and working with secondary qualitative data.

Learning Objectives

Work with secondary qualitative data from the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR).
Use the free software Taguette for qualitative analysis.
Discuss options and limitations for open research with proprietary qualitative analysis packages.
Understand options for sharing source data and coded analysis projects.

Keywords

qualitative researchopen sciencetaguetteQDR

Workshop History

Date	Location	Format	Instructor
4/3/2025	Co-taught Workshop	Co-taught Pilot	Sebastian Karcher
4/1/2025	External Pilot	Pilot	Authors

Recognition & Impact

JeSLIB Article Published

A peer-reviewed article describing this curriculum is published in the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB).

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Instructor Specs

Duration: 90m - 3h (estimated)
Level: Introductory
License: CC-BY 4.0

Cite this Lesson

APA Format:

Porter, N. (2026). Open Qualitative Research (Taguette). UCLA IMLS Open Science. https://ucla-imls-open-sci.info/lessons/open-qualitative-research-taguette

BibTeX:

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@misc{open_qualitative_research_taguette_2026,
  author = {Nathaniel Porter},
  title = {Open Qualitative Research (Taguette)},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {UCLA IMLS Open Science},
  url = {https://ucla-imls-open-sci.info/lessons/open-qualitative-research-taguette}
}

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